#E5CC50#E5CC50

#E5CC50 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.604; OKLCH L 84.4% C 0.144 H 97.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.08:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5CC50
RGB	rgb(229, 204, 80)
HSL	hsl(50, 74%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(50, 65%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.9%, 65.1%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.07, -5.16, 62.81)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.07, 63.02, 94.69°)
OKLab	oklab(84.37% -0.0194 0.1422)
OKLCH	oklch(84.37% 0.144 97.8)
XYZ	xyz(55.3564, 60.4256, 16.3353)
Luminance	0.6042 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5CC50 #5069E5

analogous

#E58150 #E5CC50 #B3E550

triadic

#E5CC50 #50E5CC #CC50E5

tetradic

#E5CC50 #50E581 #5069E5 #E550B3

square

#E5CC50 #50E581 #5069E5 #E550B3

split-complementary

#E5CC50 #50B3E5 #8150E5

monochromatic

#A28B18 #D8B920 #E5CC50 #EDDC85 #F5EBBB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.60

#E5CC50 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.08

#E5CC50 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5CC50

13.08:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5CC50	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5CC50	1.00	1.60	13.08	13.08
#FFFFFF	1.60	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.08	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.08	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DFC741

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E6D057

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F6BEB2

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CCCCCC

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5cc50;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 204, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.4% 0.144 97.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1db87',
    500: '#e5cc50',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5cc50;
$custom-light: #f1db87;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5cc50",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 204,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.933,
    "s": 74.129,
    "l": 60.588
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84369,
    "c": 0.14352,
    "h": 97.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.60423
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5CC50

secondary

#3447A5

accent

#31D60F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF3

border

#D7D4CD

text

#17140C

muted

#85837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5CC50

Body copy rendered with the generated semantic roles for this colour.

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